In 1955, A Boat's Entire Crew Of 25 Completely Disappeared Even Though The Boat Itself Didn't Actually Sink


Joyita was a merchant vessel that mysteriously disappeared in the South Pacific back in 1955. Though we can all understand that ships sink, and tragedies happen, this was not the case with this mystery. What caught everyone's attention was the fact that the vessel was built in such a way that there was practically no possibility of it actually sinking. In fact, once the vessel was found, there was still a great part of it that was out of the water, but there was not a single person on it. The vessel originally carried 25 people but during the search, no one was found. This story left many puzzled as to why the crew did not simply stay on the ship and how none of their bodies were found

What this blurb doesn't mention is that the MV Joyita had been in very poor condition at the time of her last voyage and had been listing even before she left port and only one of her engines was working. Between the time she disappeared and her discovery, five weeks have passed and she was found drifting 600 miles off course. When they found her, the radio was tuned in on the international distress frequency, but, because the wire to the aerial was broken, the signal couldn't have reached more than 2 miles. There was an open first aid kit on deck along with bloody bandages and her engines were disassembled. Oh and her logbook, navigational equipment single lifeboat and life-rafts were missing along with the crew. So it's reasonable to assume there was a mechanical incident which disabled the ship, the crew tried to fix the ship and radio for help, when those options failed they waited for rescue for a couple of weeks then abandoned ship but never reached shore

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